Sunday this week, a Nairobi bound Ethiopian Airline Boeing 737-800 Max crashed six minutes after takeoff from Bole Airport, Addis Ababa, killing a total of 157 people on board. Another accident involving a similar plane owned by Lion Air occurred in Indonesia in October last year, taking with it the lives of 189 people. There is too much of a coincidence in this to be ignored or blamed on pilot error. The Boeing 737- Max 8 is the new version of the old Boeing 737 plane, but already, great concerns have been raised regarding the crafts safety standards following the two accidents, only months apart. As the world mourns those on board the ill-fated aircraft, Kenya bears the greatest loss, having lost 32 Kenyans in the accident.

Source: Standard Digital March 11, 2019 21:45 UTC